- 1788Â : Bowdler - Conway, London, 1788, Thomas Bowdler offers the first example of the famous double rook sacrifice
- 1851Â : The Immortal game between Adolf Anderssen and Lionel Kieseritzky
- 1852Â : The Evergreen game between Adolf Anderssen and Jean Dufresne
- 1858Â : The opera game between Paul Morphy and two allies, the Duke of Brunswick and Count Isouard
- 1872Â : Hamppe - Meitner, Vienna 1872, the Immortal Draw between Carl Hamppe and Philipp Meitner, involving an enigmatic queen sacrifice.
- 1889Â : Lasker - Bauer, Amsterdam 1889, the first example of the famous double bishop sacrifice
- 1912Â : Levitsky - Marshall, Breslau 1912, widely considered one of the greatest queen sacrifices ever played
- 1922 : Bogoljubov - Alekhine, Hastings 1922 was called the greatest game of chess ever played by Irving Chernev : "Alekhine's subtle strategy involves manoeuvres which encompass the entire chessboard as a battlefield. There are exciting plots and counterplots. There are fascinating combinations and brilliant sacrifices of Queens and Rooks. There are two remarkable promotions of Pawns and a third in the offing, before White decides to capitulate." (The Chess Companion, Chernev, Faber & Faber Ltd, 1970).
- 1923 : The Immortal Zugzwang Game between Fritz Sämisch and Aron Nimzowitsch, Copenhagen
- 1925Â : Reti - Alekhine, Baden-Baden, 1925 between Richard Reti and Alexander Alekhine, involving many deep, complicated combinations; see comprehensive analysis by A.J. Goldsby
- 1930Â : The Polish Immortal, features Glucksberg vs. Najdorf (circa 1930). Black sacrifices all 4 minor pieces for victory
- 1934Â : The Peruvian Immortal, sees Peruvian master Esteban Canal demolish his amateur opponent with the sacrifice of 2 rooks and queen.
- 1935Â : The Pearl of Zandvoort. Savielly Tartakower gave this name to the decisive game of the Max Euwe v. Alexander Alekhine World Championship Match
- 1956 : The Game of the Century between Donald Byrne and Bobby Fischer. Byrne (playing White), after a standard opening, makes a seemingly minor mistake on move 11, losing tempo by moving the same piece twice. Fischer pounces, with brilliant sacrificial play, culminating in a queen sacrifice. Byrne captures the queen, but Fischer gets far too much material for it-–a rook and two bishops--and coordinated them to force checkmate.
- 1957Â : The Immortal losing game between Bogdan Sliwa and David Bronstein. Black has a lost game but sets some elegant traps in attempting to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat
- 1985Â : The Octopus Knight, game 16 of the World Chess Championship match. Garry Kasparov as black gets a dominating knight (called an "Octopus knight" by Raymond Keene) on d3 against Anatoly Karpov.
- 1996Â : Deep Blue - Kasparov, 1996, Game 1, the first game in which a chess-playing computer defeated a reigning world champion using normal time controls.
- 1997Â : Deep Blue - Kasparov, 1997, Game 6, the last game of the 1997 rematch, which Deep Blue won, making it the first computer to defeat a world champion in a match over several games.
- 1999Â : Kasparov versus The World, in which the reigning world champion played, via the Internet, against the "entire" rest of the world in consultation.
- 1999Â : Kasparov - Topalov, Wijk aan Zee, 1999, rook sacrifice with a 15+ moves forced sacrificial combination. One of the most commented chess games ever, with extensive press coverage.
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